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Without a valid forest inventory you cannot fell, cannot apply for support, and cannot reliably value the forest. It lasts 20 years, but in practice the data ages faster. Here is when an inventory must be renewed, what it costs, and why its year is the first thing to check before a deal.
The familiar narrative of a roughly even state-versus-private split does not match the VMD data. Measured by forest compartments, private ownership outweighs the state by a factor of 2.17. Within the private sector, concentration is extreme: the top 1% of owners hold 44% of the area. We break down ownership across 276,011 cadastres.
Forest land is not a building plot. Before you put a house on it or turn it into a field, you have to deforest it legally: a competent authority's permit plus compensation to the state. We break down the Cabinet Regulation No. 889 formula, why growing forest elsewhere cuts the bill many times over, and show two calculations with real numbers.
On 11 June 2026, Latvia's Saeima adopted urgent amendments to the Protection Zones Law: from 3 July, a 30-metre protection zone applies along the external land border with Russia and Belarus. Selling real property in the zone without Ministry of Defence consent is legally void. Here is what buyers and sellers need to know.
A forest reaches the saw in one of two ways: it hits the statutory felling age, or it hits the felling diameter. This guide lays out the age table by species, explains the diameter route, and why the pine 30 / spruce 26 / birch 25 cm figures you find online were struck down in 2024 — and how to check whether a specific stand can be felled now.
If a stand falls inside a specially protected area, Natura 2000 or a microreserve and logging there is restricted, the owner is entitled to an annual compensation — between €52 and €196 per hectare depending on how strict the ban is. Here are the current rates, the two application routes, the deadlines, and how to check your own property.
After the largest forest-land deal in Latvian history, IKEA-linked Ingka Investments now holds about 230,000 ha of Latvian forest. Separately, Inter IKEA bought roughly 24,000 ha in the Baltics. Here is what happened and what it actually changes for buyers and sellers.
About seven months are left before December 30, 2026. By that date every Latvian timber seller into the EU supply chain will need GPS coordinates of the felling site and a completed due diligence statement. What that means for a private owner.
Latvian state TV ran a simple test: the same 10 ha parcel in Vidzeme drew offers from €30,000 to €80,000. The 2.7× gap is the price an owner pays for entering negotiations without numbers.
A brother and sister inherit 12 hectares of forest. One wants to sell, the other doesn't. What happens next isn't decided by a family agreement — it's decided by the Civil Law: a right of first refusal, a two-month window, and a redemption right that can unwind a deal already signed.
Mežabirža is Latvia's electronic auction venue for cirsma (standing-timber sale). Marketing claims +15–50% over the reserve, but our read of public 2024–2025 data points to an average uplift closer to 10–20%. In liquid segments it is even lower. Here is where the platform genuinely works and where you simply pay to participate.
99,489 ha of mature spruce in Latvia's private forests sit inside the bark beetle's working range. Regional damage rates differ by 4.6×. What VMD data shows and what owners need to do before spring.
